Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, Ki…

so were the spaniels proper enemies or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: spaniels · What happens: be · To what, where: proper enemies

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	6 enemies	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enemies	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spaniels	det
4	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 enemies	nsubj
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 enemies	amod
6	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 enemies	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 enemies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the spaniels	proper enemies					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, they were just mad friendly dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 dogs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dogs	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dogs	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 dogs	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dogs	amod
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dogs	amod
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	mad friendly dogs					tree rules

Option 2

yeah, they wanted to bite him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bite	mark
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	bite not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	him = he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

yeah, the King had ordered them to shoot him on sight at the gate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 ordered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ordered	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ordered	aux
6	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ordered	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 shoot	mark
9	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ordered	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shoot	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 sight	case
12	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoot	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 gate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gate	det
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past · perfect	the King		them = they				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	shoot not said to happen	to-infinitive	the King not said here	King		sight		at the gate	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme on sight=Destination

Option 4

nah, they were just sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sleepy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sleepy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sleepy	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sleepy	advmod
6	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					sleepy property	tree rules

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